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The built-in Notes app on iPhones offers you the ability to keep, organize, and find information in a convenient and functional application. We’ll explore how to use Notes starting with the basics, then learn how to format and edit text in a note. Please bring a working iPhone with you to class.

This class covers
• Find, set up, and use Notes
• Format and edit text in a note
• Use the “Share” icon in many Apple apps to send information to the Notes app
 

Will Hawk retired from the information technology industry after 35 years. At present Will serves as a very active volunteer for OLLI and enjoys using technology to assist seniors with everyday tasks. As a lifelong learner Will has many interests including hiking and yoga.

Cognitive science is "the scientific study of cognition, or thought, in all its forms." While cognition has been the object of study for millennia, results until recently were very modest. Advances in neuroscience, medical imaging, and artificial intelligence, however, have revolutionized the field. In this study group we will watch and discuss 24 lectures on cognitive science in a new Great Courses series given by UM Professor Thad Polk. Prof. Polk will attend the last session of our series to discuss the course and answer questions. Please visit bit.ly/CogSciA for a fuller course description and bit.ly/CogSciB for a listing of lectures. (This course is in hybrid format. Participants who cannot get to the TSRC can join by Zoom, but others are strongly encouraged to attend in person).

Craig Stephan, Ph.D. is a retired physicist from Ford Motor Co. and Argonne National Lab. He has led many OLLI study groups, including “The Aging Brain” (also by Prof. Polk), “Consciousness and the Brain”, “Consciousness and its Implications”, and “Philosophy and Physics."

We live in the age of information. But what is information, and what are its laws? Claude Shannon’s 1948 creation of information theory launched a revolution in both science and technology. The key property of information is its amazing transformability. Any single message can take on dozens of different physical forms, from marks on paper to radio waves, and any type of information can be encoded as a series of binary digits, or bits. Combined with revolutionary advances in electronics, Shannon’s ideas changed the world.

Dick Chase worked 27 years as a research physicist for Ford and taught physics at undergraduate and graduate levels. At OLLI, he has hosted 28 science study groups and led 5 book discussion groups.